Goodbye Facebook. Meta is officially his new name
Amid the scandal over Facebook's internal politics, its creator, Mark Zuckerberg has officially changed the name to get rid of facebook and take the big step to Meta. This has been revealed in Connect.
This change may be related to leaving behind the bad image of the blue titan and the increasingly notorious controversies surrounding the giant, although as we will see below, the creator ridicules this idea.
The new Facebook identity
Meta will be the new name by which both the social network Facebook and Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus and the rest of the companies related to it will be governed and grouped.
Facebook, or now, Meta, will strive to build an interconnected set of virtual experiences in the digital world, a parallel world called Metaverse. Hence it gets its new name.
Mark himself defines it as a virtual world where he can be present with other users in digital spaces. A new way of investigating and enjoying the internet but this time within it.
The term metaverse was first coined in 1992 in a novel by Neal Stephenson. Within the novel, human beings have their digital avatars and fully interact in digital spaces. Many other movies like Ready Player One, The Matrix and novels have coined this "futuristic idea" that now "Facebook" intends to make a reality together with its investors.
Is it an image wash?
Mark clarifies that the identity change is not subject to criticism of the company in an interview with The Verge where he clarifies that the change of identity had already been thought about from the purchases of WhatsApp and Instagram a few years ago. Now is the time to make the change. He himself acknowledges that Facebook currently does not have an ideal image but considers it ridiculous that this change has been a wash of image.
Is it true what counts?
Ultimately, Meta is going to be real
Mark Zuckerberg is firmly committed to developing everything related to the metaverse to make it a reality of the XNUMXst century. With the current technological advances it is not a crazy idea, even so it remains to be seen the scope that it may have and the interest that a step like this in technology will awaken throughout the world. This topic will give much to talk about today, being one of the innovations that can mark the life of the human being, apart from skepticism, in future generations the inclusion of the metaverse will come normalized from birth.
In any case, there is still time to complete this expensive and ambitious development. It is estimated that it will not really become operational for several years, pointing to "the second half of the decade." There it is estimated that the project will clearly expand worldwide. We well know that if Facebook has something, it is reach in terms of number of users, so once it is launched it will be a matter of time before the project works.